The News Hub panel discusses the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and how his death might impact the country's future and its relations with the U.S. Photo: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images

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on ... the ... start ... our ... story ... the North Korean dictator Kim Jong at the high ... dying ... sixty nine years old ... died last night ... will be succeeded by his ... son ... of Kim Jong hoon right ... and for more on that I think we're going to go straight to ... Evan Ramstad and is not for him it up ... but Minnesota ... but I'd knows the story well has fallen Korea very closely ... Evan of lot of uncertainty in Asia caused by this painting transition ... great great now ... the the big question for everybody is ... will ... the ... Kim regime ... be able to hang on to control ... and um ... you know that that that that that that that the reader to stay calm and ... peace ... at the moment something that people been ... wondering about ever since he became ... gravely ill in August two thousand ate with a stronger start by illness ... and I'm so that you know they have been a succession plan ... but it had only been so active for about a year and has sunk into ... an assist from the beginning of the prior year ... by contrast Kim Sun Il had been unknown quantity in North Korea and the world ... for more than ten years he took over from his father ... on his father's advantage ... I wonder about that Evan I mean I remember nineteen ninety four ... and years leading up to ninety four there was a lot of propaganda in order to prepare people for this transition ... of when Kim Il sung died why it would seem so little about this time around ... well I mean concertos mature under his father was I was in his eighties when he died ... so probably ... there was just the ... facts ... you know you it's the I'm not really ... likely to die or anything like that then you have a stroke and it became a bit of an imperative ... the Korean tradition is built around to some confusion ... over ... what they say is confusion notion of age seniority and that holds ... that ... the younger person never stops ... the share of the older person ever ... to even when the heck engine in ... the public that he appointed last year ... you know ... that the machine always took pains to show they came to an analyst at incharge ... and ... even in these tracks led him to innovate ... very high-profile trips to China to ban in the past year and want to rush out ... of Cuajone was not seen ... as the ... first session watchers that is something that I was a big sign you don't that ... is probably not all that great but other seen in Korea watchers we should know that ... this seniority tradition holds that in a younger person's never to be about to step out of the shadow of the old ... and been given all the uncertainty in obviously from the outside is not much that is known ... about leadership and rolled the military and other players that ... one of the options for South Korean alchemy just watch and wait and be on alert ... yet the watch and wait to ... go one analyst I was talking to analysts said yesterday expert at Victor CHA who is the ... you know Bush administration when the North Korea for Number years ... in one of the planet he was saying that ... basically this is not at all the other nations are going to be sort of looking ... at all this like like it's on a fishbowl you know ... I'm ... just everybody so the circled around China look in ... and nobody's going to stick to hand it because you dont wanna ... pull the fish or or or or do anything it is just a theory ... an anxious moments and it's something that ... I know it's it's certain ... that ... instate takes an action you know in my head hurt ... stir things up so it's it's a very sort of a fraught situation ... Evan ... time magazine has now been cleared ten thousand eleven theeuro protests and in North North Korea you have this pathetically more company failed ... economy ... Stalinist dictatorship ... really if there is any place in the water and that is right for people rising up and saying enough already you would be North Korea get opposing the happened was ... is the lack of information flow ... that is that communication is very hard to do you spell our publicity around the idea that ... North Korea has ... got a cell phone network ... in the past couple of years and ... may have several hundred thousand users to ... place his twenty four minutes of its ... small but even those ... that several hundred thousand people ... thus the hundred or so thousand people have cellphones that the current state of the capital ... they ranged in tears as to ... how much they can use their phones sees communication the ability to organize in other words ... a protest is really newly constrained ... and ... you know for most people watched the whole system ... is designed to ... if you get a lot of somebody will tell ... you ... and when they targeted the consequences can be very severe grandstand and they'll ... be changing in one of these for over a week later ... it will look all that seems to suggest if you're going to the repressive you should be truly were press ... and I think the one point lead on the run the will that so far yet what let's cut out for Delin and ... South Korea Austin thanks thanks for joining us obviously soak South Korea has the most at risk in this transition ... this is the scenario that they've been talking about ... for years what what's the reaction there ... can anyone here and ... here ... so important for sure ... reading no reports or so now you're you're easy to Crystal conditional ... Euroview was there yet insider ... initially the reaction was just on a complete surprise that this is happening now ... they know the way to bidders just there were no nonsense instead ... of the transition that we know is that of ... houses coming ... so ... right now people are just you know looking phone information phone and wallet is almost a week and right now ... says radio says the students that follow ... and China has obviously been the key support and prop for the North Korean regime ... Alistair ... have they made any expression so far ... after the death about it and the wavering runway remain true that support ... I believe they said ... today it is so little Koreans of the alliance remains strong ... so I I I you can see the ... Chinese ... of course I learned about this ... it enables Menshel the site ... you are the least of the North Koreans remain strong as this transition goes through ... on agreed to meet all of them so that at a house or what we hope for in this situation you know we've seen we've had this year of ... of ... of turmoil and tension between the desire for stability and durability and against for president dictatorships what's the best scenario they can come out and ... out of this transit ... Merkel's invests in our it would be good so you don't criticize another rates ... items of note we do something like the Arab Spring happening in the ... in depth don't know in in in North Korea and moments of ... is ... the sunlight ... calls the small ... people knew what it is I mean any possibility that I think a quick engine and the the court the top of of North Korea do you see any signs that the tea leaves that would point you in that optimistic direction ... not really ... notice of it all up duty of economy is still so young star ... of the reason know how he's wrong showered with actually running the show ... Puss announces it will just have to wait and see on the I mean I think that you know I think you can plan because is its own crime mystery ... the best one can hope is that there's something inside this person both ... to maintain ... his power within that regime and into water reform ... but ... from the outside there's nothing that we've seen that indicates that's the case and of course the thing that makes this so fraught with ... concern is the isthe nuclear capability and potential nuclear capability of North Korea Alistair there were reports this morning the day of ... there was a missile test ... obviously not a nuclear armed missile but I've ... but a missile test ... from North Korea ... what how great is the fear that they are that this succession can lead to the kind of instability that would free ... up a serious military crisis ... Miro is a lot of their top ups of ... missile tests day we don't know much about it ... of local news agency they don't how was your sign today South Korean government official ... saying is that it didn't seem to relate to the death of Kim Jong Il ... and this is the ... result was a huge pot of times ... reach it and it costs about ... future events ... unit as long ... as the saying that this could be ... around the time read everything topping up in the past ... quite how the transition of power ... so we don't really know what is something that will have to watch full ... house or thanks very much for joining us is ... still with us in Minneapolis ... I'd like to go back to Evan and this evidence we can just get your ... final thoughts on what to be looking for in the days ahead to get some sense of how this may play out ... they don't look for issues how to handle the euro ... on you because ... the very telling time ... though the relationships between the two ... countries ... really concerned about North Korea for political ... and military reasons ... you know the to be just a really great early indicator ... in eighteen eighty four for instance United States is not invited to the funeral of cable son ... president Clinton at a time to call ... then came John Doe an express condolences ... on serve ... and that is ... the yardstick that ... he's been good for us to be measured against ... it can recall precisely in South Korea was aware of this I sent a delegation to be ... at the end of summer ... on ... you